The Factory Girl and the Seamstress : Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction

by Amal Amireh

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Studies in American Popular History and Culture

ISBN-10 0815336209

ISBN-13 9780815336204

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 3rd, 2000

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 386 grams

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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870.

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society''s economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.

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